Kay Scarpetta · Book 4
Cruel and Unusual
- Published
- 1 January 1993
- Pages
- 356
- ISBN-13
- 9780684195308
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cruel and Unusual is a novel by Patricia Cornwell, in 1993 at 356 pages. It sits at #4 in Kay Scarpetta's reading order. All That Remains comes before it, The Body Farm after.
Its place in Kay Scarpetta
Cruel and Unusual is book 4 in the Kay Scarpetta series. It follows All That Remains. It is followed by The Body Farm. See the full Kay Scarpetta reading order.
Kay Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia (and, later, a federal forensic investigator and private consultant) whose autopsy table is where every case really begins. Patricia Cornwell's series is credited with popularising the modern forensic-procedural: DNA evidence, trace analysis and autopsy detail that were startlingly technical for genre fiction in 1990 and remain a core selling point today. Scarpetta investigates alongside her homicide-detective niece-in-all-but-name-later-partner Pete Marino…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780684195308